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हितोपदेशhitopadeśa

हितोपदेश (hitopadeśa) is a Sanskrit word meaning friendly advice or salutary instruction, a popular collection of fables and moral precepts, name of two works on medicine, friendly or proper advice, good advice, good counsel or instruction in what is salutary. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Salutary Advice or Instruction, Advice and Fable Collection Title, Other Works Named 'Hitopadeśa'.

Definitions
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Meanings by context

Salutary Advice or Instruction

4 definitions
friendly advice or salutary instruction

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Friendly or proper advice.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Good advice

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Friendly or proper advice

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Advice and Fable Collection Title

3 definitions
1. Good counsel or instruction in what is salutary. 2. A well-known collection of fables.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

salutary instruction or a collection of fables

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Salutary instruction. 2. Name of a collection of fables.

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

Other Works Named 'Hitopadeśa'

1 definition
name of two works on medicine

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

The Fable Collection 'Hitopadeśa'

1 definition
a popular collection of fables and moral precepts

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 7 works: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.